disease: Disease Data

Description Usage Format Note

Description

In a health study to investigate an epidemic outbreak of a disease that is spread by mosquitoes, individuals are randomly sampled within two sectors in a city to determine if the person had recently contracted the disease under study. This was ascertained by the interviewer, who asked pertinent questions to assess whether certain specific symptoms associated with the disease were present during the specified period.

Usage

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data("disease")

Format

A dataframe with 196 rows and 4 columns.

disease_status

Indicator of whether the disease is present. Coded as:

  • 1Disease is present

  • 2Disease is absent

age

Age in years.

ses

Socio-economic status of household. One of:

  • upper

  • middle

  • lower

sector

The sector within the city. One of:

  • sector1

  • sector2

Note

The documentation does not auto-update. If one changes the base file, this documentation will no longer remain accurate.

36-202 Lab 11 Data.


frank113/cmu202 documentation built on July 17, 2020, 9:31 p.m.